Local pastor urges boycott of the latest $200 Air Jordans....

Our invincible scribe braves the headache of a lifetime to catch vintage troubadours the Filter Kings and the sardine-like surroundings at the Dirtbombs' recent show (just how many hipsters can fit into the Lager House?) ... all this & so much more.

Rufus Wainwright plots the demolition of pop....

"Nobody believes a liar ... even when he is telling the truth!" This moral from an old Aesop's fable is the foundation for a modern-day retelling of The Boy Who Cried Wolf. But the film’s moral is: Don't pair up two extraordinary, up-and-coming child actors with one low-caliber, two-bit adult goofball.

Kate Winslet and Judi Dench as tragic British author Iris Murdock.

Set in some fictional central Asian country, this remakefeatures long and incoherent sequences of its title sport, a combination of Roller Derby, pro wrestling and free-form mayhem. The film’s message, which has to do with the commercial viability of violence, has become a wretched cliché.

A weighty nostalgia drags through this moving picture, eroding time and color. Aberdeen takes a dysfunctional family’s melodrama on the road to the unplanned destination of redemptive bonding — with Charlotte Rampling, Stellan Skarsgård and Lena Headey.

Apparently the war on terrorism needs unthinking drones — and conservative hacks such as Schwarzenegger (like John Wayne before him) are only too happy to provide its latest propaganda. Director Andrew Davis (The Fugitive) tries to implicate each viewer in Old Testament eye-for-an-eye bloodlust.

A better title for this film might be The Singing Strand Boys: Norway’s Berlevåg Male Choir. Director Knut Erik Jensen’s documentary presents us with the stern beauties of nature and the passionate and motley characters of the choir.